Please join us for the Opening Reception on December 1st, 2017 from 7-9pm at the WKP Kennedy Gallery. We will enjoy a Curatorial Talk with Salomé Viguier at 7:15pm, followed by a performance by Manitoulin Island and Sudbury-based artist Mariana Lafrance at 7:45pm. Refreshments will be served.__________________________________________

We are pleased to invite
you to attend our upcoming exhibition exploring contemporary Francophone
identity through the diverse lenses and voices of six emerging Franco-Ontarian
artists, all under the age of 35.

This exhibition, FRAGILE,
is a conversation on the complexities of identifying with a cultural community in
contemporary Canada. As languages and cultures fuse, and ‘identity’ in Canada
is often generically described as multifaceted, bilingual, and diverse, these
six Francophone artists embark on a quest for self amidst the mixed and
confused cultural inheritances which they hold.

Operating between
softened boundaries of language and heritage, the artists transcend cultural
category with a range of work expressing in the modes of video, photography,
installation and performance. The heterogeneity of the works mirror the
complexities of what it means to be a Francophone artist working in Canada
today.